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Alice Bandele settles down with a Hardee’s burger beneath a shady tree in the courtyard square’s center, her granddaughter joyously bouncing alongside scores of other children in one of two rainbow-colored jumping castles located on the square’s east side as on the west side, Big Ron Wilson of “American Idol” fame sings Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go” with his six-piece band.

When Marco Rubio announced his participation in the 2016 presidential race, he made himself ineligible to once again pursue his position as Florida Representative in the United States Senate, as there’s a law prohibiting candidates from appearing on a ballot twice. A Detroit native living in Havana hopes to take his spot.

Lateresa Jones recently filed her intent to be the Democratic nominee for Rubio’s seat. Jones has lived in South Florida for years, and moved to Havana after her husband enrolled in classes at FAMU.

In the six elections held across Gadsden County on Tuesday, only two led to incumbents losing their positions. Both of those incumbent losses came in Midway.

Wanda “Jackson” Range beat incumbent Delores Madison by 10 percentage points for Midway’s District 3 council seat, while Zach Woods beat Allean Robinson in a landslide victory for the District 7 seat. Charlie Smith of District 1 was re-elected to his seat.

A Quincy mother of two was murdered April 21. It was her birthday.
Gregory Sapp Jr., 24, has been charged with one count of homicide for the death of Keyonda Collier and two counts of kidnapping for allegedly gagging and tying the hands and feet of Collier’s children. Officers found Collier’s children in that condition. They found Collier lying unresponsive in the bathtub with her hands and feet bound; she had been stabbed three times in the neck and twice in the shoulder.

FAMU’s recently installed president took a step toward introducing herself to the Gadsden County community by speaking this past Sunday afternoon at a local church’s annual celebration of female public servants.

New security measures were revealed Monday at the county courthouse in Quincy. They include the closure of all entrances except one, the implementation of security cameras outside all entrances and the addition of two bailiffs to monitor the newly installed metal detector.

In addition, county officials plan to add an X-ray system in October for scanning bags.

Everyone entering the courthouse will be required to go through the metal detector and, until the X-ray system is implemented, consent to a search of his or her bags.

A fire completely destroyed an apartment at Havana Heights on Monday night, leaving a family displaced and their immediate neighbors temporarily unable to return to their own apartments.

Though an incident report drafted by the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office says the cause of the fire is undetermined, some of the apartment’s tenants and witnesses who saw the fire begin believe the cause was an in-wall air conditioning unit with frayed electrical circuits.